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Meanings of vocable in English

Portuguese
spoken word
Catalan
vocable

A word that is spoken aloud.

        spoken word
        Usage of vocable in English
        1
        We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.
        Atlantida
        2
        Often I had wished to test in speech the widely alleged merits of this vocable.
        Somewhere in Red Gap
        3
        Then the wrath of the old Inspector became vocable.
        The Red Acorn
        4
        A very little would have induced him to fill that empty vocable with a name.
        Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
        5
        Her words are as hauntingly enigmatic as the vocable language she usually employs in her shamanistic quest.
        Wired
        6
        The primitive vocable now conveyed a lively resentment, but there was the pleading of a patient sufferer in what followed.
        Somewhere in Red Gap
        7
        Suppose I have an idea to which I give utterance by the vocable 'skrkl,' claiming at the same time that it is true.
        The Meaning of Truth
        8
        Few men, if any, had a more extensive knowledge of its vocables.
        Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma...
        9
        When words are used they are few, fragmentary and generally eked out with vocables.
        Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
        10
        This word is one of the Yale vocables.
        A Collection of College Words and Customs
        11
        Many Indian songs have no words at all, vocables only being used to float the voice.
        Indian Story and Song, from North America
        12
        Frequently only vocables are attached to a melody.
        Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
        13
        Even when he attempted vocables he had sounded quite like an inferior record on a phonographic machine.
        Ruggles of Red Gap
        14
        The Parish household devoted every possible moment with native earnestness to the choice and the weighing of vocables.
        The Town Traveller
        15
        But what now concerns us most is the circumstance that here too the demand is, Vocables, still vocables.
        Latter-Day Pamphlets
        16
        The vocables given are those used with these songs when the Indians sing them as they hide the balls.
        Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
        Translations for vocable
        Portuguese
        spoken word
        Catalan
        vocable
        Vocable through the time